I reveiwed the link content you refered to me, cd'ed to the .exe location, ran the command listed below and got the result shown (but-- the installer ran, installed navigatror and then it started!! WOW:-) ) i then clicked on the icon created on my desktop and voila!! navigator now starts from the desktop!!!
I'm not sure what exactly happened but i shall try the same method on other Windows programs i've got just to make sure i know what to do---- thanks again to all who helped!!
rshafersr@Rn1:~/Documents/DownloadedSoftware/NetscapeNavigator$ wine netscape-navigator-9.0.exe
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
rshafersr@Rn1:~/Documents/DownloadedSoftware/NetscapeNavigator$ fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on USB Device 0x46d:0x9a4, disabling mixer
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x7da609d4, overlapped 0x7da609b8): stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on USB Device 0x46d:0x9a4, disabling mixer
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x7dbc99d4, overlapped 0x7dbc99b8): stub
fixme:msimtf:CActiveIMM_Create ((nil) {08c0e040-62d1-11d1-9326-0060b067b86e} 0xb0ebec)
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {08c0e040-62d1-11d1-9326-0060b067b86e} of class {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59}, hres is 0x80004002
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:msimtf:DllCanUnloadNow ()
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on USB Device 0x46d:0x9a4, disabling mixer
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x7dbc69d4, overlapped 0x7dbc69b8): stub
fixme:msimtf:CActiveIMM_Create ((nil) {08c0e040-62d1-11d1-9326-0060b067b86e} 0xb0ebec)
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {08c0e040-62d1-11d1-9326-0060b067b86e} of class {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59}, hres is 0x80004002
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:win:UpdateLayeredWindow (0x20032,(nil),0x33e028,0x33e048,0x480,0x33e040,0x00000000,0x33e058,2): stub!
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {591209c7-767b-42b2-9fba-44ee4615f2c7} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {591209c7-767b-42b2-9fba-44ee4615f2c7} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {591209c7-767b-42b2-9fba-44ee4615f2c7} could be created for context 0x3
fixme:bidi:mirror stub: mirroring of characters not yet implemented
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {591209c7-767b-42b2-9fba-44ee4615f2c7} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {591209c7-767b-42b2-9fba-44ee4615f2c7} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {591209c7-767b-42b2-9fba-44ee4615f2c7} could be created for context 0x3
